Nokia teases 41MP EOS reveal in NYC on July 11th -- We’ll be there!

As E3 winds down, an exciting week is still upon us. Nokia just sent out press invites, including one to your favorite Windows Phone site (that’d be this one, folks) for July 11th at 11am.

The focus of the event (yes, we intended that pun): If we had to bet our life on it, it would be Nokia’s EOS for AT&T, which is expected to punch with a 41MP camera and the latest iteration of the Windows Phone 8 OS.

The theme of the event is “Zoom. Reinvented.”, which hints at the EOS's ability to zoom-by-cropping due to the plethora of megapixels in the image—this is diametrically opposed to the idea of a physical zoom, where one has a long lens with moving parts akin to where Samsung is going with their upcoming Galaxy S4 Zoom phone.

The thing is, moving delicate parts are a bad idea on mobile devices—they add size and are prone to damage. We think Nokia has gone down the right route, but obviously more will be revealed in less than 30 days.

Other expected features of the EOS aka 'Elvis' on AT&T will be:

41 MP camera with Xenon flash

Nokia Pro Camera

32GB of internal storage

OLED screen at 768 x 1280

WP8 v 8.0.10322.71

FM Radio

Flip to silence

Polycarbonate body

Takes 35 MP picture and a 5 MP at the same time. The 5 MP version is meant for quickly sharing on social networks.

Comes in yellow

No SD card

No visible OS changes

With the large amount of photo leaks of the device, all that remains to be understood are the finer details. We can’t wait.

Naw, I whole heartily believe they used the same sensor as the 808....and about 99% positive that they are using a dedicated GPU for the image processing. It took them 5 years to develop the 808 sensor, it would've taken them a lot longer than 1.5 years to develop a new sensor. Like I said, before the XX in Roman thing has been beat to death. If you don't know, Nokia uses XX's as placeholders on their prototypes so that they cannot show the actual MP to competitors. They did this with the 808 btw.

20mpx could be right.
I think the magnifying glass represents the big diameter of the hump and zoom reinvented means that they use that large diameter for the zoomin. So this wouldn't be pureview 808 pixel binning but maype some mirrors or something (optical).

My wife doesn't know yet. She is getting a L920 too. lol Her L900 will be used by me to upgrade to EOS, assuming the EOS turns out to be indeed 41 mp instead of the 20mp as speculated by a separate rumour. The only positive sign is that Nokia hasn't come out to deny it. We'll see.

Of course it's 41, the 20 came from someone who didn't understand that XX were placeholders.
Really can't decide on this phone. Initially I was really excited, but the more I think about it, I want something a little smaller after my 920.

This will be my next phone. I'm big into photography, so if I can get the EOS camera like the original PureView, with low light capabilities of the Lumia 9xx line, I'm all in. Wallet is open, body is ready.

It better be. If not, it will prove that Microsoft can't move fast enough and release new updates at a pace that is necessary to compete these days. Wp8 was announced in October and no big updates released???? Seriously!?

Not with the current storage issue that's been left out for quite a while. 920 still has enough storage but the 820 has close to nil with apps with 8GB on board, 4-5GB taken by other storage and 2GB by system. That's 1GB left for apps and games.

if the theme "“Zoom. Reinvented.”" really refers to the ability to zoom by cropping, I'd say it's somewhat weird theme since 808 already presented that. Or is everything now new because it's WP this time ?

As far as we know, this is the 808 PureView, with the additions of the 92x series of low-light technology all in one phone to make a purely badass camera phone - this is the phone to put everything that Nokia has together.

If I had a 920, especially considering you are likely still under contract, I don't think there is a huge push to upgrade as really you're just getting a better camera (although the 920 camera is already amazing). I assume the flip to silence and time on lockscreen, etc will be available for 920 with an OS update soon too. For others that aren't even on WP8 like me with my Lumia 900, this has a pretty strong pull! Can't wait to hold one and see how that big camera bump feels (and weighs).

It may not - someone with good knowledge usuallly told me that the pictures may not be _quite_ as good as from the 808 but that was of course based on a prototype. Plus, even if they were slightly inferior to the 808, they would still kick butt! :)

Who the heck holds such amount of personal pics in a phone. Too much to lose if your phone breaks, gets stolen etc. Not to mention what would phones finder say about all those porn photos/videos on your phone!

They opened a dev center in Finland next to Nokia house so that they can steal it from there. So you should expect it in SG5 along with the eye controlling the camera.. you have to squint to zoom in and open your eyes wide to zooom out.

Hmmm gotta rob a bank fast to buy this phone! Ahaha anyway. Regarding about the screen's resolution about not being a 1080p doesn't matter to me. I mean if u have a 1080p monitor woukd be great having a bigger screen and better viewing experience rather than looking at a 5 inch display with a full hd 1080p.

I switched to AT&T after years of being with sprint and can't help but praise my selection of phones with this network lol. I'm not a big camera guy (owning an htc one is a dead giveaway) but I wanna play with this phone upon release and see the quality for myself.

I feel like it's not going to be 41mp, but much greater.. 41MP, was Nokia's innovation last year. Nokia has been working with nanotech and graphene since 2006, and a lot has happened already, so who knows. I could be wrong.

Couldn't you just clear your camera roll every month and save images to a PC and/or SkyDrive? Seriously, if you want a reasonably-sized phone with an amazing camera and you hold back for no other reason than it's 32gb storage "limit", I have to question your critical faculties.

Exactly. Some people just don't know how to think outside the box these days..............meanwhile, I'm over here on the Titan with just 16GB of storage space...I think I've done well over the last two years. Go ME!

That's nice. I have 200gb of music but I certainly don't and wouldn't expect to carry it all, or even 1\5th of it on my phone. Good grief. You're an outlier and you proved my point that some people are lazy and simply can't plan ahead.

You won't fit 200 gb worth of music on ANY phone today, whereas my 60 gb fit snuggly on my 808, all the lower tier Lumias and most of Samsungs Galaxies... My point is, I can do it today; why shouldn't I be able to do it tomorrow? It's called a downgrade, and that's never a good selling point for a new product.
I may be an outlier, but I certainly haven't proven any point of yours; there's no way I'll accept not wanting to spend an hour each morning looking into a crystal ball and micromanaging my music as being lazy. That's called having no life.
And again, I would urge you to consider your communication - you really are a terrible boor...

Ridiculous... Music players became more or less obsolete 5 years ago, when smartphones gained enough memory to handle complete collections. I need what I have today - a smartphone that plays music and takes great pictures. My incentive to replace my 808 with the EOS would be better internet experience, more apps, less weight and better form factor. None of these matter if it means downgrading on the basics. As for aiming not to please... Well, so much for taking you seriously.

Galaxy s4 octa core, Htc one quad core, Xperia Z quadcore, Nexus 4 Quadcore.
see the competition? They all out run lumias because of the processor and ram.
I know that WP8 is very light and doesnt need many cores but nokia cant just sell phones based on camera.
We as Wp users know about this, but new naive buyers will see the number of cores and go for these other devices.
seriously i have seen people doing it

There were 3,5, and 8 MP modes that utilized the over sampling, which in and of itself was incredible, but there were also 34 and 38MP modes that would use either the full height or full width of the sensor. I have some of the 38MP images from several reviewers and they're nothing less than stunning. No noise, it's a beautiful thing.

curious about the time and date they chose...
11am on the 11th :)
could this be something about the model number? or something else? :)
we do LIKE rumors dont we:)?
and what do they mean by "reinvented"? same as 808 Pureview or reinvented Pureview?

Of course, they need to try to hit that sweet spot where they maximize revenue and profit. I suspect $450 is a bit too low for that. More likely to be in the $550 range (initially higher). Contract pric $149, max $199 perhaps.

My hope is that the camera on this phone is so by far the best camera on a smartphone that it takes the press and consumers by storm. Bring it Nokia, we are all in your corner now please don't underwhelm with this!!

Dude, they can overwhelm, or underwhelm it doesn't matter. As long as it involves Nokia and MS the press will spread as much garbage, innuendo, and FUD as you read on this site's comments (and there's A LOT here!). This is why people have to do their own homework and make their own decisions. if you leave it up to the press/bloggers/media... well, WP wouldn't even exist.

It is a huge mistake that Nokia sells EOS as an AT&T exclusive. This model should be made available everywhere to every carriers in the world. With the release of L928 on Verizon, Verizon immediately surpasses AT&T in terms of the US marketshare. It clearly indicates that the AT&T exclusive is a bad deal. It makes you wonder why Nokia would insist on making the same mistake as they did with L900/L920. The other mistake is marketing a 16gb L925 on T-Mobile. It is crazy to see that a vendor wants to limit itself to sell products. Steve Elop keeps giving us reasons that noboly believes.

It's the carriers demanding exclusivity, especially in the US. They don't want a model everyone has, they want one only they have and can market as such. That may change over time as Nokia grows and gets more popular in the US again, but until then they have to make whatever deals will get them sales and like it or not, it's catering to the carriers for now.

Hopefully next generation we will see a single model. Samsung started the same way making dozens of different variants for the gs1 and gs2 for every carrier. Then with the gs3 and new gs4 its now one single model. Soon......

It is sad that AT&T had to get the exclusivity deal. They don't seem push the L920 nearly as hard as Verizon does. The L920 sales dropped by a big number to 400k last quarter. Now again, Nokia let them get the EOS exclusive deal. It is pitiful.

Where was Verizon and WP7? Lol, for years Verizon has pushed Droid/Android phones on their lineup of phones and that is probably how Android is the dominant platform it is today. I would think Nokia would be a little cautious after their wimpy fallout with WP7. ATT had like a 10:1 WP7 ratio (probably even more..) 2 years ago.

This has me really pissed off - I was seriously considering switching from Android to WP, and this phone would do it for me - but the fact that its not on Verizon makes me really upset. Why dont OEM's realize that they will sell way more handsets if they drop exclusive deals with carriers. The reason that Samsung took off with it's Galaxy line, is that they released it for all carriers. The 928 looks great, but it just doesnt give me the itch to go........this EOS however has me wanting me some WP.........but not at the expense of losing my unlimited data plan.

I agree with this on so many levels. Not just because I'm on T-Mo and I'm sick of being done dirty by Nokia, but this device is NOT an every man's device. It's not as bulky and definitive as the Samsung Zoom (definitive meaning that thing IS a camera. The EOS is still as much a phone as the 920) yet and still people will look at it and weigh the options of buying one. Some will want it just to have it, but it's targeted for the select few who really want great pictures above all else. Does the camera justify the added (albeit small) bulk, and the price? To me it does. To photographers it does, or might. But not everyone will want it.
This is not a "flagship" device. This is not the device to break sales records... it will be called that, and when it fails to do great numbers it will be called a "flop". But it is a niche device, tha targets a certain type of consumer. And if they want to get this in as many hands as possible (in the US) they have to stop with the exclusivity. The only way this phone is going to really be a hit is to spread it out. Otherwise this will sit on ATT shelves behind the iphone just like all other Lumia's.
Not spreading fear, just keeping it real.

I'm not too worry about the Nokia EOS sales in US market. It is a subsidized market and most people can afford any top end phone as they choose. It is different that 808 PureView phone has been sold in the mostly unsubsidized market. Only pros would want to invest $700 for a camera phone. I just don't like the AT&T exclusivity deal which leaves the majority of the major carriers customers unexposed. Even Nokia considers the EOS a niche model, I won't be surprised if it turns out to become a popular flagship. It could lead the WP8 phones to make a major crack into the US smartphone market. People appreciate innovation and value.

No way, AT&T exclusivity, they pay extra for it! what you think, Nokia is going to say 'No Verizon, we don't want to make millions from you'?! AT&T understands business, how they had iPhone exclusivity for a few years. They want to provide their customers with the most updated phones! while Verizon is still behind with the 928 (8 months behind), AT&T jumping on the next one! AT&T sees the potential in windows phones, tis why they scrapped the iPhone and keeps stocking WPs! AT&T FTW, they know what they're doing!

well its worth a try! "I have been a loyal AT&T customer for years, have a family plan, boo hoo hoo" were some of the lines I used - and make sure to ask to talk to the supervisor too. it's not like they will take your 920 away from you so why not give it a shot?